Wil van der Aalst
| Wil M.P. van der Aalst | |
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| Born |
January 29, 1966 Eersel, North Brabant |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Fields | Information systems, Workflow management, Petri nets, Process mining, Specification languages, and Simulation. |
| Institutions | Technische Universiteit Eindhoven |
| Thesis | "Timed colored Petri nets and their application to logistics" (1992) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jaap Wessels and Kees van Hee |
| Known for | Workflow patterns, ProM framework, YAWL, software tools such as Declare, Woflan, XRL, |
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Website http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~wvdaalst/ |
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Wil M.P. van der Aalst (born 29 January 1966) is a Dutch computer scientist, and professor at the Department of Mathematics & Computer Science of the Eindhoven University of Technology, where he chairs the Architecture of Information Systems group. His research and teaching interests include information systems, workflow management, Petri nets, process mining, specification languages, and simulation. He is also known for his work on workflow patterns.
Born in Eersel, Netherlands Van der Aalst received an MSc in computing science in 1988 at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e), and a PhD in mathematics in 1992 with the thesis "Timed colored Petri nets and their application to logistics" under supervision of Jaap Wessels and Kees van Hee.
In 1992 he started working at the Eindhoven University of Technology as an assistant professor for the department of Mathematics and Computing Science, where he headed the Specification and Modeling of Information systems (SMIS) research group. 2000 to 2003 he became a part-time full professor at the Computing Science department. And from 2000 to 2006 he was head of the Information Systems department at the Technology Management department of TU/e. Since 2006 he is full professor at the Department of Mathematics & Computer Science of the Eindhoven University of Technology. He also has a part-time appointment in the BPM group of Queensland University of Technology (QUT).
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